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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

Howdy everyone. I've been meaning to drop a note to this list for quite 
some time. As the subject suggests, I've sort of dropped off the face of 
the earth with regards to smgl.

It'd probably be a good idea for someone to remove my perforce account.

I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who contributes in any 
form to SMGL. I regret that I was not able to find time to contribute 
more. For a couple of years, I had been using SMGL almost exclusively at 
work, using a single typical source-based SMGL install to generate binary 
packages/grimoires for the remaining computers. We had roughly 30 machines 
at one point using SMGL.

Unfortunately, the time involved in maintaining this system was much more 
than I could afford and reluctantly moved everything to a more standard 
rpm based system last fall. This has required me to install the same 
system on my primary machine for testing, diagnosing, development, etc.

I will be keeping a SMGL box or two around to play with whenever I can 
spare some time.

Keep up the good work. SMGL has a number of strong points, but the most 
important of these from my perspective is the great people involved in the 
project. It is rare to find a community that takes as much time as I have 
seen people take on this list and in irc helping out new users.

Thanks again to all!

-casey